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The Politics of Official Apologies (Paperback)
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Intense interest in past injustice lies at the centre of
contemporary world politics. Most scholarly and public attention
has focused on truth commissions, trials, lustration, and other
related decisions, following political transitions. This book
examines the political uses of official apologies in Australia,
Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. It explores why
minority groups demand such apologies and why governments do or do
not offer them. Nobles argues that apologies can help to alter the
terms and meanings of national membership. Minority groups demand
apologies in order to focus attention on historical injustices.
Similarly, state actors support apologies for ideological and moral
reasons, driven by their support of group rights, responsiveness to
group demands, and belief that acknowledgment is due. Apologies, as
employed by political actors, play an important, if
underappreciated, role in bringing certain views about history and
moral obligation to bear in public life.
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